Versioning Your App

Versioning of the app is a critical course of the app release, as it maintains information on app upgrades and maintenance strategy. When users install the app, it provides information on details of the version and what this particular version has to offer. This also applies for users who install updates of an app that is installed on their devices. Services through which you will publish your app will also need to display the version to users. The publishing service may also check the app version to determine compatibility and perform the upgrade/downgrade action accordingly. Since the Android System does not use app version information to enforce restrictions on upgrading, downgrading, or the compatibility of third party apps, the developer has to configure this setting. Using the minSDKVersion setting, you can allow an app to specify the minimum system API...